The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday morning it would reconsider a December 18th ruling from former EPA chief Stephen Johnson which sought to prohibit controls on global warming pollution from coal-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, despite a finding from EPA’s own Environmental Appeals Board stating that “EPA had not adequately explained why the program did not apply to carbon dioxide.”  Under the leadership of Lisa Jackson, Obama’s

new EPA Administrator, the agency granted a petition from the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Environmental Defense Fund calling for the EPA to reconsider the “unlawful, midnight memo issued by former EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson.” Read more of this story »

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EPA Set to Act on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Coal-Fired Plants - Another Strike for Bush-era Policies